Makin' friends

Making friends with the World Series trophies.


Making friends with Russ and Jan's daughter, Amanda. Althea later stole Amanda sunglasses - I think she has been forgiven, being two and cute goes a long way.



Lovin' on the Cooper dog - they are best friends.




Dan, Luke and Denise - yeah!




Yup, playing with Play-Doh and sporting boots, shorts and a pajama top...

A few more

I love this photo. On the last day of each Red Sox season they invite children to run the bases after the game. Althea had a great time, even after taking the digger while rounding second she was smiling crossing home.


I am not sure where her fashion sense comes from... no I am serious. That is a Nance Parker creation on her head, my Bean bag, yellow socks, a purple dress and mathcing pink sweatshirt and shoes...



I had to put this one in - she is obsessing over her cup of orange juice here and wouldn't look up for a photo.

Randomness

"Pound it Momma!"
We waited with the masses so that Althea could run the bases at America's Favorite Ballpark.


Althea gives Russ the whatfor... or maybe that was the other way around????



The kids out apple picking. That's Nora, Cole, Althea and Owen.




Althea and Dinah catch up on the latest daycare gossip at Two Lights.

photos of the girl in charge

"Hair clip Daddy?"



Dr. Althea Seuss



Fun with swings




Hiking on Bradberry in the heat

MONKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!

photos

The babe on her birthday...


Ben gave her jewlry, it is starting already... we are in trouble.



The lame fish cake I made and "glued" together with frosting.




Her bike : ) She and I tried out at least 10 trikes before deciding on this one - she loves it and it fits...

April

I was reminded today that people actually do like to see photos of the girl...


With Mimi (better known as Pauline Smeriglio) on Easter Sunday.



Swinging with Daddy



Reading with Auntie Heather - she goes nuts when Heather visits, too cute.




Blowing bubbles on the porch.

some February shots of the grrrllll...

Wishing she was still in St John - right there with ya babe...



Auntie Heatha and 'lil Miss - yes the sweater has ears...



mmmm...snow tastes good...




Catching snowflakes AND eating snow - whoa, does life get better?

Wearing the scarf that Auntie Heatha knit (her first knitting project - how cool)...

New Gadget

Yup - do you see it? to the left of this post? That'd be the NG pic of the day...

I am not totally happy about the google ad, but Blogger is free I guess they have to pay for the site somehow - I mean you know Google isn't receiving any stimulus money...all together, oh, poor Google...

ployes

So, I have been making ployes for Althea, not to be confused with plugs (you don't flip a ploye). She loves them.


When she was still hungry after devouring her pizza I made a small batch of Bouchards' ployes - can you say mmmmm....good?


Attempting to shove the entire ploye into her mouth.

Boats and beaches

So, how was the boat trip?

Althea actually slept through the boat trip, I wished I was asleep (what with my motion sickness), Sophie may have felt the same way (see my reason above) and Amy having a grand time of it all... We tooled around to Waterlemon and snorkeled off the boat, great fun! I loved treading water with my fins on, no mask, hanging out near the boat chatting with people. We headed over to the BVI - cool - wished we had the boat for a few days and could have explored BVI more.

OMG! She carried that pail like an old lady carries her purse around...

The babes. Clockwise: Rachel, Carley, Althea and Sophie.

What a fabulous foursome.

On the boat and other things

So we rented a power boat and went out for a little cruise. Did I mention that the Dorsky family came to St John mid-week and hung out with us for three days? Great fun!


Carly posing on the boat at Waterlemon Cay. The snorkling there was great as usual and I really enjoyed swimming in my fins right off the back of the boat!



Althea wants to snorkle - really bad...



Carly and Rachel wrap our girl up and snuggle on the beach - Althea could have hung out with girls for weeks on end.




Running to the water.

More island photos

More lovely photos...


Please sir can I have another?


This is one of the five or six geckos that hung out in our tent cottage while we were there...can you say no mosquitoes?



She was in the water everyday for at least four hours, most days it was six hours...




Of course Aurora the chihuahua came along for the trip...

Back from the island...

Back from St John and wishing we were still there...


Miss Althea heading to the porch for a quick sun shower.



She wore an itty bitty yellow polka dot bikini...



The path to our tent cottage.




Althea says "Hi!"




Back too soon to reality of life in northern New England... These are great shots of our trip to St John, mon...

Our Computer

So... our computer stopped working - yup just plain ol' stopped...

Of course we had some of our files backed up to disc, but much of it is simply gone - vanished onto the non-fixable hard-drive forever. If you have photos of us - ski trips, holidays, vacations, random shots and can send them - let us know.

I will start posting new photos soon - once I am comfortable with the new computer.

Hope you all are well!

Christmas photos

Checkin' out the snow with Cooper.



Jakob and Althea on Christmas afternoon.




Cool doll house.